Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)

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Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
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Anti-Slavery Society, founded 1787
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World Anti-Slavery Society Convention, London,
1840
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Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
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Lucy Stone (1819-1893)
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Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
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Civil War Amendments

• XIII (1865) outlaws slavery
• XIV (1868) due process and equal protection
• XV (1870) right to vote not abridged on account
  of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

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National Woman Suffrage Association (1869)
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American Woman Suffrage Association (1870)
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Suffragettes in Washington DC
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Nineteenth Amendment (ratified August 18, 1920)

• The right of citizens of the United States to
  vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
  United States or by any State on account of sex.
• Congress shall have power to enforce this
  article by appropriate legislation.

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Voting rights in the US before the Nineteenth
Amendment

• Territory of Wyoming (1869)
• Colorado (1893)
• Utah and Idaho (1896)
• Washington state (1910)
• California (1911)
• Kansas, Oregon, Arizona (1912)

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Suffragettes in London
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Voting rights, Europe

• England 1918 (partial), 1928 (full)
• Germany 1919
• France and Italy after WW II
• Switzerland 1971